We heard a lot about the 99-percent during the last election (not to be confused with the 47-percent). Activists from Occupy Boston and other groups told us the system was built to benefit the 1-percent. The rich getting richer.

It found that more than half the benefits of 10 major tax breaks go to the one-fifth of households at the top of the income scale.

Those same households enjoy four-fifths of the benefits of deducting state and local taxes.

Some will tell you this is because the tax code was written by rich people. Wealthy white men. And whether that’s true, the reason why there is such disparity is because our tax code gives preferential treatment to people with investment income.

And most low income households tend to have fewer, if any, investments.

Democrats will likely use this information to build the case for eliminating some tax breaks for wealthy Americans.

Indeed the study was requested by Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) who is the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

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